According to the job description on the Apple web site:

The Mac OS X Internet Technologies department is looking for a software engineer to join the Mail.app team. Email is one of the most important programs for today’s computer users, and we are looking for engineers eager to help us expand the work that Mail can do for people.

Our top requirement for this position is someone with energy and ideas for extending our application to make it work better and do more for our users. This engineer will have responsibility for designing features, implementing features, and fixing bugs in Mail. In general we prefer to have engineers who can work both the UI level and lower level implementation details.

Last time the Mail Team wanted new blood, I got an email from “Deepthroat” inside the Cupertino Bunker, asking me to promote it on Hawk Wings. Nothing this time.

In fact, I haven’t heard from Deepthroat for a while, which either means that I have somehow offended him or he has been kneecapped by some kind of internal Communication Prevention Squad. Or maybe he has quit and this is his job.

This is the third engineer-level position advertised this year. Last time the Mail Team put their pictures inside the Mail.app package, there were nine of them. Either this is a time of expansion or a time of high job rotation and, perhaps, unhappiness. One hopes the former.

Anyway, if you think this is you, you can apply for the job on the Apple web site. The position’s requisition number is 2757917.

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Given the much-hyped culture of secrecy at Cupertino and much-hyped stories of Steve Jobs’ views about communication with the outside world, anyone who sticks their head above the parapet (NDA or not) is admirable. (See further extended commentary on Apple and blogging here ).

In his latest post , he takes issue with a recent list of scandalous problems in mail.app.

He rates the poster at rtfa.net as “better than most of the trolls you find on anonymous blogs” but has some robust and forthright things to say in Mail.app’s defence.

Jim describes himself as a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, who survived a graduation address from Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser al-Missned and went on to work for the Apple Mail Team (perhaps as a result of the advertisement for Mail Team engineers earlier this year? Perhaps earlier.)mail.app, apple mail, apple mail development team, engineer, steve jobs, cupertino cone of silence, bugsSimilar Posts:

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